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The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair

Publication date: 1939
Topics: World's Fairs, technology, capitalism, communism, time capsules
Publisher: Audio Productions Inc.
Language: English
Rights: Public Domain.
Item Size: 3.7G

1939, sound, 55 min, Technicolor, 35mm. Transferred from a 35mm nitrate print.

See: Andrew Wood, "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair," http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/middleton/index1.html.

This drama illustrates the contribution of free enterprise, technology, and Westinghouse products to the American way of life. The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair pits an anti-capitalist bohemian artist boyfriend against an all-American electrical engineer who believes in improving society by working through corporations. The Middletons experience Westinghouse's technological marvels at the Fair and win back their daughter from her leftist boyfriend.

Memorable moments: the dishwashing contest between Mrs. Modern and Mrs. Drudge; Electro, the smoking robot; and the Westinghouse time capsule.

Credits

Sponsor: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
Production Company: Audio Productions Inc.
Director/Writer: Robert R. Snody. Camera: William Steiner. Music: Edwin E. Ludig. Editor: Sol E. Feuerman.
Cast: Marjorie Lord (Babs), James Lydon (Bud), Ruth Lee (Mother), Harry Shannon (Father), Adora Andrews (Grandma), Douglas Stark (Jim Treadway), George J. Lewis (Nick Makaroff), Georgette Harvey (Maid), Ray Perkins, Helen Bennett.
Based on a story by G.R. Hunter and Reed Drummond.

Addeddate: 2007-11-29 03:35:38
Ccnum: asr
Closed captioning: no
Color: color
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Fil-transport: boost
Identifier: middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939
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Run time: 55:00
Sound: sound
Whisper_asr_module_version: 20230805.01
Year: 1939